skippy the bush kangaroo: from the simple answers to stupid questions dept.

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

from the simple answers to stupid questions dept.

no!

no more mister nice blog answers stanley fish quite succinctly:

what i told you back on sept. 28, 2008, was that within a year of the day he left office george w. bush would come to be regarded with affection and a little nostalgia....

well it's a bit more than a year now and signs of bush's rehabilitation are beginning to pop up. one is literally a sign, a billboard that appeared recently on i-35 in minnesota. occupying the right side (from the viewer's viewpoint) is a picture of bush smiling genially and waving his hand in a friendly gesture. occupying the left side is a simple and direct question: "miss me yet?" the image is all over the internet, hundreds of millions of hits, and unscientific web-based polls indicate that more do miss him than don't....

wow -- people clicked on the image, so every single one of them (including me) must agree with it! and polls confirm fish's belief -- "unscientific web-based polls"! hey, that's all the proof i need! q.e.d.!

in fact, a poll conducted by actual professionals -- the opinion dynamics firm, polling for fox news -- shows that bush's favorability was 11 points less in february 2010 than it was in january 2009 (and 3 points less than it was in october 2009). yes, if you scroll down at that link (from polling report) you'll see a cnn poll that shows an uptick in bush's favorability -- but it was conducted about a week after bush and bill clinton teamed up for haiti relief. and even in that poll, the favorable-unfavorable numbers were 43%-54%. (in the fox poll they were 38%-55%.)

we repeat:

no!

posted by skippy at 8:53 AM |

6 Comments:

I'd like to add to that sentiment~

HELL NO

You might say his presidency was..... torture.

commented by

Fran, 10:02 AM PST

Yeah, isn't it so nice to have a President who has shuttered GITMO, ended rendition, repealed the Patriot Act, and no longer has the military "just air-raiding villages and killing civilians," right? Oh, wait...

commented by

Gadfly John, 11:01 AM PST

I miss Bush every day, especially when I think about the freak show we have running things today.

commented by

Terrye, 12:12 PM PST

Listen carefully, and you can hear GW saying, "You won't have George to Kick Around, Any More!"

And, we're SOO grateful!

(Fortunately, historians will [deservedly] continue kicking George. Eternally.)

commented by

Anonymous, 8:28 AM PST

People like Stanley Fish are the reason so many right-wingers have a low opinion of academics.

As for Bush, even if I wanted to miss him, I couldn't. The bastard simply won't go away...

commented by

Jim Yeager, 8:56 AM PST

Stanley Fish toys with his readers. He says stuff that he knows will provoke certain reactions. I can't tell how much of this particular column he believes, and with his history of being disingenous I don't really care.

commented by

Tommy, 7:07 PM PST

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